Elizabeth Baldwin Letchworth's Blog Posts Tagged 'resolution' (4)

Speaker Boehner (R-OH) broke the log jam on the Federal spending by filing a 1 week continuing resolution. Before everyone starts screaming about yet another “kick-the-can” scenario, let’s look at the text.…

Congress is pushing the time table for resolving the Omnibus appropriations/Continuing resolution to the brink by trash talking each other for over a week. This began with Sen. Schumer (D-NY) labeling the Tea Party as extreme early last week. Once this comment became public, then the dueling press conferences and public warfare began to flow continuously though most of last week. This is a shame since the American public and valid government…

The House of Representatives spent all week and several late nights debating hundreds of amendments to the Omnibus appropriations bill that would continue our federal government funding through Sept. 30, 2011. The amendments were permitted to be offered under the new GOP leadership practices outlined by Speaker Boehner during the opening days of the 112th Congress.  This is the first time in over four years where any member of the House is permitted to offer a floor amendment to a massive…

The spending battle finally begins this week in Congress

This past week the Senate continued debating the Federal Aviation Admin. bill but mostly was in recess while Senate Democrats conducted their legislative agenda retreat in Charlottesville, VA. What emerged from their multiple-day retreat was a clear message that they intend to attack the GOP as they construct their budget cutting Omnibus appropriations bill which will continue…